The United States is made up of more than 2 billion acres of land—nearly 750 million of which represent forest lands.
Without question, the domesticated hybrid yeast that gives us lager beer is an organism worth many billions of dollars.
Since lasers were invented more than 50 years ago, they have transformed a diverse swath of technology—from CD players to surgical instruments.
We invariably imagine electronic devices to be made from silicon chips, with which computers store and process information as binary digits (zeros and ones) represented by tiny electrical charges. But it need not be this ...
Silicon Valley is famed for spawning the desktop, mobile and cloud computing revolutions. What is less well known is that it's one of the nerve centers for building the world's fastest number-crunchers.
By using sound waves to push and pull matter like science fiction tractor beams, scientists have developed "acoustic tweezers" that can manipulate blood cells and microscopic worms on a platform the size of a dime.
Radio-frequency technology developed at the University of Pittsburgh that uses human tissue instead of air as a conduit for radio waves is the basis of the first electronic "tag" system designed to track and monitor orthopaedic ...
In its current early stage of development, digital memory circuits that use organic elements instead of silicon or other inorganic materials have a seemingly endless list of variables and options to consider, test, and optimize. ...
The search for low-k materials to improve semiconductor interconnects may have reached certain practical limits, according to technologists at a recent conference sponsored by SEMATECH. Future work likely will focus less ...
The contraceptive pill is obviously not intended for fish and frogs. However, the hormones in the pill and other pharmaceuticals that are not completely broken down in sewage treatment plants can affect aquatic organisms.
